A Botanical Introduction to The Biodiversity Heritage Library

A Botanical Introduction to The Biodiversity Heritage Library Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries Botany & Mycology 2009 Snowbird, Utah July 26, 2009

2003. Telluride. Encyclopedia of Life meeting
February 2005. London. Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature
May 2005. Washington. Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
June 2006. Washington. Organizational and Technical meeting
August 2006. New York Botanical Garden. BHL Director’s Meeting.
October 2006. St. Louis/San Francisco. Technical meetings
February 2007. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Organizational meeting
May 2007. Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch. Washington DC.

American Museum of Natural History (New York)‏ Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) Field Museum (Chicago)‏ Natural History Museum (London)‏ Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington) Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)‏ New York Botanical Garden (New York)‏ Royal Botanic Garden, Kew Botany Libraries, Harvard University Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Scanning Partner Internet Archive Contributor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Contributor California Digital Library Contributor Library of Congress

Initial grant from the MacArthur and Sloan Foundations (as part of the Encyclopedia of Life grant)‏ Additional support from parent institutions Supplemental grants in place for specific development (e.g. Moore Foundation for Fedora) Additional grants being actively pursued by BHL and individual members

The Encyclopedia of Life

How much is there: Core literature pre-1923: 100 million pages (?) All pre-1923: 120-150 million pages All literature: 280-320 million pages

More than: 36,000 volumes 15 million pages Only 290 million to go! Avg. monthly growth rate 1,500 volumes 600,000 pages See you in 2048! Now Online

More statistics: 1.3 million catalogue records 73% are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level) 63% is English language material The next most popular language (9%) is German About 30% of material was published before 1923

Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI
Marine monographs
General Science
Museum of Comparative Zoology
MCZ publications
Herpetology monographs and serials
Ichthyology monographs and serials
Rough Selection

University of Illinois
Fieldiana
Natural history of Illinois
American Museum of Natural History
AMNH publications
Ornithology
Natural History Museum
NHM publications
Major natural history general serials
Rough Selection

Botany Collections
Missouri Botanical Garden,
New York Botanical Garden,
Harvard Botany Libraries, and
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Smithsonian Libraries Botany
will cooperatively develop a methodology for botanical publications and botanical collections from other BHL members will fill in gaps
Rough Selection

Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Smithsonian publications
Entomology collection
Marine mammals
Fishes
Selected special collections materials
Cooperate with other botanical collections
Rough Selection

Collections Coordinator on board in February 2009. Bianca Lipscomb, based at the Smithsonian, will coordinate material selection across the BHL and contributing partners Rough Selection

How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s

Selection Tools: Combined Serial list for selection of title to scan to avoid duplication of effort Monographic “de-duping” algorithm OCLC Collection Analysis

Mass Scanning Workflow
Bid Lists
Serials Management
Pick Lists
Packing Lists
Monographic Management
Local data flow
WonderFetch (tm)
Return of data
Return of material
Billing

Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically and Metadata
Establish viability and create Wonderfetch
Send to IA scanning center
Book is scanned & QA
Page images loaded
Derivatives created
Book returned to library
Files harvested from IA portal to BHL
Taxonomic Intelligence Added
Available through BHL

BHL Scanning

Internet Archive
501(c)(3) organization
Dedicated to “Universal Access to Human Knowledge”
Founder of the Open Content Alliance
Provides:
Mass scanning
Archival storage of files
Image processing
Technology development

Single Scribe Machine built by the Internet Archive Human operated 3,500 page per shift per day

Northeast Regional Scanning Center
10 Scribe machines
MBL/WHOI
Harvard
Jersey City Facility
10 Scribe machines
AMNH
NYBG

University of Illinois
2 Scribe machines
Natural History Museum, London
1 Scribe machine
Missouri Botanical Garden
Non-Scribe operation

Washington, DC
1 Scribe machine at Smithsonian Libraries
10 Scribe facility at Library of Congress (FedScan)‏

Acquiring Other Content

What about other scanning?
Missouri Botanical Garden Library continuing in-house scanning process
Other BHL members also have non-Internet Archive scanning operations
Ingest of other interested collections

Biodiversity Heritage Library Permission Process Working with non-profit publishers for sharing with the BHL To digitize and mount works under copyright BHL must obtain permission from the copyright holders. Many biodiversity journals and monographs are published by non-profit institutions or learned societies whose mission is to promote research and learning. Some of these institutions have not sold their rights to commercial publishers and are open to sharing with the BHL.

Current Permission Agreement: The agreement is non-exclusive. The copyright holder can use the content for other purposes. It does not involve any transfer of copyright to the BHL or its member institutions. It “grants to the current and future member Participating Institutions of the BHL a world-wide, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable license to digitize and use the Titles (as identified above) in connection with the BHL, including the right to make reproductions in digital form, publicly display, and disseminate the Titles via the BHL and related websites, and create derivative works in digital form based on the Titles. The scope of this license is equivalent to an open source license, which permits others to use, reproduce, supplement, modify, create derivatives, and otherwise use the Titles, for any and all non-commercial purposes, with proper attribution to the Licensor as the source.”

Process: There is room for some modification of the wording of the draft permission document. When it is finalized, BHL Director sign for the BHL and the Editor-in-chief or Chairperson of the society signs. The process is usually very smooth. >60 titles to date, many published in the US, some of which are published in Europe and Asia.

Permissions Database

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BHL Forms Global Partnerships

BHL Europe

Biodiversity Heritage Libraries in Europe: Natural History Museum, London, UK Narodni muzeum, Prague, CZ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts, DE Land Oberösterreich (Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen), AT Hungarian Natural History Museum, HU University of Copenhagen (Natural History Museum of Denmark), DK Stichting Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, Leiden, NL National Botanic Garden of Belgium, BE Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, BE Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, BE Bibliothèque nationale de France, FR Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, FR Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, ES Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK Helsingin yliopisto, Helsinki, FI

Partners of BHL-Europe: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, DE Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, AT Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, PL Università degli Studi di Firenze (Museo di Storia Naturale), Florence, IT Freie Universität Berlin (Botanic Garden & Museum), DE Missouri Botanical Garden, USA Smithsonian Institution, USA Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE European Digital Library Foundation, NL Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, AT ATOS Origin Integration France , FR Species 2000 , UK John Wiley & Sons limited, UK

More Partners Discussions underway with the Chinese Academy of Sciences The Atlas of Living Australia More …

BHL Institutions – July 2009

Technical Details of the Global BHL

But what’s this all mean to me!?

Botanicus & the BHL Portal

Plant Names Specimens Plant Names Plant Names Specimens Descriptions Plant Names Plant Names Citations

Specimen
Plate or other visual image
Taxonomic description

Built from a variety of new and existing sources Views available for varying levels of expertise from novice to expert Legacy literature a key component of the EOL species pages Encyclopedia of Life Species Pages

BHL Portal http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Cite http://cite.biodiversitylibrary.org Internet Archive http://www.archive.org Ubio http://www.ubio.org Links

Credits
Chris Freeland
Suzanne Pilsk
Tom Garnett
Cathy Norton
David Remsen
Henning Scholz

Thanks for sticking around!

A Botanical Introduction to The Biodiversity Heritage Library Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries Botany & Mycology 2009 Snowbird, Utah July 26, 2009

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